Welcome to our weekly exploration of how this week sounded like.
This is a curation made of new, undiscovered, and sometimes forgotten music, one song at a day. Covering January 23rd, to January 29th, 2025.
Curated and hosted by Iohann Rashi Vega.
January 23rd
Mogwai – “God Got You Back”.
From Album: The Bad Fire. 2025.
Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band formed in 1995 in Glasgow. They typically create lengthy guitar-based instrumental pieces that feature deeply atmospheric soundscapes, with a heavy use of distortion and effects.
Mogwai’s eleventh album, “The Bad Fire”, which is a Glaswegian term for Hell, reflects a challenging period for the band. The album opens with the single”God Gets You Back,”.
This piece is built off some big, deep chords, and takes its time building up. And it manages to go into a bit of a more melodic synth-pop mode, perhaps due to the influence of an unlikely collaborator: “[The song] needed some melody or vocals, but I couldn’t come up with the lyrics so I asked my seven-year-old daughter to make some up, and she did and I sang them,” said Barry Burns, guitarist from Mogwai.
The Bad Fire at full volume, it can be overwhelming, yet it contains an underlying beauty that elevates and empowers.
January 24th
Σtella – “Adagio”.
From Upcoming Album: Adagio. 2025.
Stella Chronopoulou is a Greek painter, visual artist, and performer, based in Athens. Her performer name is Σtella, with a Sigma, the greek alphabet letter.
Σtella creates music with a vintage-flecked pop. It’s a combination of airy indie pop, glistening synth pop, and vintage Greek pop. She has a new album titled Adagio, to be released in April of 2025. In this album she also sings in greek for the first time.
January 25th
FKA Twigs – “Eusexua”.
From Album: Eusexua. 2025.
Tahliah Debrett Barnett, known professionally as FKA Twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, and dancer. Her music has been described as “genre-bending”, immersing into a variety of styles, including electronic music, R&B, trip hop, choral music, industrial, and avant-garde. In her songs and music videos she incorporates elements of afrofuturism.
She has released three albums. Her latest album release, is named with a term she coined herself: Eusexua. FKA Twigs has defined eusexua by example. “Eusexua is for the girls who find their true selves under a hard metal silver stiletto on the damp rave floor”.
January 26th
Passepaurtduo & INOYAMALAND – “Abstract Pets (Salamanda Remix) ”.
From Single: Abstract Pets. 2025.
Passepartout Duo, is a project comprised of Italian pianist Nicoletta Favari and Italian-American percussionist Christopher Salvito. They create music from a unique blend of electro-acoustic textures and ever-shifting rhythms. Their work explores how we listen to and connect with sound, driven by a constant evolution of their handmade instruments. These range from analog electronics and traditional percussion to large-scale textile installations and found objects.
Since forming in 2015, the duo has maintained a near-constant world tour, shaping their unconventional creative process through extensive travel. This has led to collaborations like their recent release, “Radio Yugawara”, released in 2024, as a joint effort with Japanese duo Inoyama Land.
From this production, a new released remix of the single Abstract Pets, was created as a revisited version by Salamanda, an electronic music female duo from Seoul, Korea, influenced by 20th century minimalism, and they have a sound characterized by distinctive patterns and harmonies.
January 27th
Happy Birthday, Mozart!
Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion – “Afrolero”.
From Album: Mozart Meets Cuba. 2003.
Austrian Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is possibly one of the most prolific composers of western music and the classical period, born in January 27, 1756. He very well can be considered as the first rock star of his time, with over 800 works that covered all different western genres of the music during that time.
To celebrate Mozart’s 269th birthday, we will listen to a delicate rendition of the Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 Second Movement, Andante, reinterpreted by The Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion, which is a jazz quintet from Germany.
In 2000, the Klazz Brothers met Cuban percussionists Alexis Herrera Estevez and Elio Rodrigo Luis during their Cuban tour, and together created a crossover that revealed a shared musical language.
https://www.artegemini.com/artists/klazzbrothers-cubapercussion
January 28th
Quickly, Quickly – “Enything”.
From Upcoming Album: I Heard That Noise. 2025.
Graham Jonson, is a Portland, Oregon-based musician. He began his musical journey early, releasing his first singles at the age of 16. Initially known as “quickly, quickly,” his music gained traction online, particularly within the “chill beats” community. His style blends jazz, hip hop, and R&B, drawing inspiration from artists like J Dilla, Bobby Hutcherson, and Lô Borges.
This song, “Enything”, is included in Quickly, Quickly’s upcoming album, I Heard That Noise, set to be released in April 18, 2025.
https://ghostly.com/artists/quickly-quickly
January 29th
Ke Xin & Meer Nash – “新年好 [Xīn Nián Hǎo]”.
From Single: 新年好 2018.
Celebrated by numerous cultures worldwide, the Lunar New Year signals the start of a new year based on lunar or lunisolar calendars.
This culturally diverse celebration is observed with unique customs and traditions on varying dates. Prominent celebrations encompass New Years based on the lunar Islamic calendar and the lunisolar Jewish calendar, both with origins in the Middle East. Additionally, East Asia observes the lunisolar Chinese and Tibetan calendars, while Southeast and South Asia celebrate according to the lunisolar Buddhist and Hindu calendars.
The Lunar New Year of 2025 is on January 29th, and it’s the year of the Snake. There are 12 zodiac animals in Chinese astrology and each is associated with one of the five elements—the snake of 2025 is a wood animal, which represents growth, flexibility and tolerance.
And to celebrate the Lunar New Year, we chose a song that literally says it so. Xīn Nián Hǎo, which means happy new year, is a pop song performed by young Chinese online celebrity, Ke Xin and rapper Meer Nash. We welcome the year of the snake with Xīn Nián Hǎo.
You can listen to all of our selected songs for each day of 2025 in our playlist “Today Sounds Like…” on Spotify.
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